UAW to Make Announcement on Daimler's Mercedes Plant in Alabama

The United Auto Workers will make an announcement Friday regarding new developments in its efforts to organize Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz plant near Tuscaloosa, Ala.

UAW officials declined to comment further Thursday but it is no secret that the union has intensified its efforts to form a local and may ask Daimler AG to allow it to conduct an organizing vote in the near future.